Ruminant Population Health

Publications

Our research team and their collaborators have published a range of papers relating to our project ‘Farmer and vet decision-making on infectious disease control on dairy and sheep farms’. You can find links to them all here:

SHORTALL O, GREEN M, BRENNAN M, WAPENAAR W and KALER J, 2017.  Exploring expert opinion on the practicality and effectiveness of biosecurity measures on dairy farms in the United Kingdom using choice modeling. Journal of dairy science. (In Press.)
RUSTON, A., SHORTALL, O., GREEN, M., BRENNAN, M., WAPENAAR, W. and KALER, J., 2016.  Challenges facing the farm animal veterinary profession in England: A qualitative study of veterinarians’ perceptions and responsesPreventive Veterinary Medicine.
2016.  Factors influencing veterinary surgeons' decision-making about dairy cattle vaccination. The Veterinary record. (In Press.)
BRENNAN ML, WRIGHT N, WAPENAAR W, JARRATT S, HOBSON-WEST P, RICHENS IF, KALER J, BUCHANAN H, HUXLEY JN and O'CONNOR HM, 2016.  Exploring Attitudes and Beliefs towards Implementing Cattle Disease Prevention and Control Measures: A Qualitative Study with Dairy Farmers in Great Britain. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI. 6(10)
SHORTALL O, RUSTON A, GREEN M, BRENNAN M, WAPENAAR W and KALER J, 2016.  Broken biosecurity? Veterinarians' framing of biosecurity on dairy farms in England. Preventive veterinary medicine. 132, 20-31
SHORTALL O, RUSTON A, GREEN M, BRENNAN M, WAPENAAR W and KALER J, 2016.  Broken biosecurity? Veterinarians' framing of biosecurity on dairy farms in England. Preventive veterinary medicine. 132, 20-31
BELLET, C., WOODNUTT, J., GREEN, L. E. and KALER, J., 2015.  Preventative services offered by veterinarians on sheep farms in England and Wales: Opinions and drivers for proactive flock health planning: Prev Vet Med Prev Vet Med. 122(4), 381-8
RICHENS, I. F., HOBSON-WEST, P., BRENNAN, M. L., LOWTON, R., KALER, J. and WAPENAAR, W., 2015.  Farmers' perception of the role of veterinary surgeons in vaccination strategies on British dairy farms: Vet RecVet Rec. 177(18), 465
HELEN M HIGGINS, LAURA E GREEN, MARTIN J GREEN and JASMEET KALER, 2013.  How Does Reviewing the Evidence Change Veterinary Surgeons' Beliefs Regarding the Treatment of Ovine Footrot? A Quantitative and Qualitative Study PLoS ONE.
KALER J and GREEN LE, 2013.  Sheep farmer opinions on the current and future role of veterinarians in flock health management on sheep farms: a qualitative study. Preventive veterinary medicine. 112(3-4), 370-7
Higgins, H.M. and Dryden, Ian L. and Green, Martin J. (2012) A Bayesian elicitation of veterinary beliefs regarding systemic dry cow therapy: variation and importance for clinical trial design. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 106 (2). pp. 87-96. ISSN 0167-5877

Ruminant Population Health

School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
University of Nottingham
Sutton Bonington Campus
Leicestershire, LE12 5RD